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The following wording “inter-parliamentary” means cooperation between governments around the world:
“an international coalition of Parliamentarians from around the world that work together”.

Delegates at the 2009 Inter-Parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism convention in London. The organisation issued a declaration calling on governments to use an Israel-centric definition of antisemitism and to outlaw and prosecute such “antisemitism.”

For two decades, some Israeli officials and Israel partisans have worked to embed a new, Israel-focused definition of antisemitism in institutions around the world, from international bodies and national governments to small college campuses in heartland America. This effort is now snowballing rapidly. As a result, advocacy for Palestinian rights is well on the way to being curtailed and even criminalized as “hate.”

The Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism (ICCA) is an international coalition of Parliamentarians from around the world that work together to combat antisemitism. Among its goals is the understanding and awarneness of modern antisemitism and ways to combat it on a global scale.[1]

The first annual conference of the ICCA was held in London, England in cooperation with the British Government in 2009 and produced the London Declaration on Combating Antisemitism.[2] Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was the first world leader to sign the Declaration.[3] It has subsequently been signed by several additional Prime Ministers across the globe and more than 600 Parliamentarians worldwide.[citation needed]

The second annual conference was held in Ottawa, Canada in association with the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism and the Canadian Government on November 7–9, 2010.[4]

The ICCA established an informal working group on antisemitism in the European Parliament, which produced a report into hate on the internet and established a working group on hate on the internet including all major internet industry players.

"When people who are honestly mistaken learn the truth,
they either cease being mistaken
or they cease being honest"
-- Anonymous

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To form a fair and unbiased understanding of the treatment of Jews in Germany after the election of Hitler in 1933 until the second world war's end in April 1945, a fair and accurate analysis of the behaviour of Jews worldwide — both collectively and individually — would need to be made.
Currently that is outlawed with thought-crime legislation in many countries or discouraged with threats, intimidation and career destruction in others.

But ironically, a more accurate understanding IS becoming understood due to the behaviour and statements of 'Jews' internationally in our own times. With the advent of social media and the increase of TV documentaries as a form of light viewing, the ironical reality is that the existence of something that can accurately be described as 'international jewry' — and their nationally-destructive loyalty to others perceived as belonging to this abstract, non-genetic 'tribe' — is being revealed.

My own journey of discovery regarding the reality of this global phenomena over recent centuries, began after I read for the first time the political last will of Adolf Hitler when in my mid-fifties.

Hitler, in his last will and testament wrote:It is untrue that I or anybody else in Germany wanted war in 1939. It was desired and instigated exclusively by those international statesmen who were either of Jewish origin or working for Jewish interests. I have made so many offers for the reduction and elimination of armaments, which posterity cannot explain away for all eternity, that the responsibility for the outbreak of this war cannot rest on me.

Furthermore, I never desired that after the first terrible World War a second war should arise against England or even against America. Centuries may pass, but out of the ruins of our cities and monuments of art there will arise anew the hatred for the people who alone are ultimately responsible: International Jewry and its helpers!

As late as three days before the outbreak of the German-Polish War, I proposed to the British Ambassador in Berlin a solution for the German-Polish problem — similar to the problem of the Saar area, under international control. This offer cannot be explained away, either. It was only rejected because the responsible circles in English politics wanted the war, partly in the expectation of business advantages, partly driven by propaganda promoted by international Jewry.

But I left no doubt about the fact that if the peoples of Europe were again only regarded as so many packages of stock shares by these international money and finance conspirators, then that race, too, which is the truly guilty party in this murderous struggle would also have to be held to account: the Jews!

...Above all, I charge the leadership of the [German] nation and their followers with the strict observance of the racial laws and with merciless resistance against the universal poisoners of all peoples, international Jewry.
Berlin, 29th April 1945, 4:00 a.m.
signed: A. Hitler

I had never knowingly come across the term 'international jewry' before, and — although presuming due to my conditioning that it was some sort of Nazi paranoia — did some research. To my great suprise, the first article I came across discussing the phenomena of 'international jewry' and acknowledging its existence was the 1920 analysis by Winston Churchill!!

What follows is an article by an Israeli Jewish blogger named Yossi Gurvitz. It deals with an admission by a recent contender for the Israeli Prime Ministership that acknowledges EXACTLY this attitude of Jews worldwide that Hitler and his National Socialist party saw themselves in conflict with. It unpacks a recent statement by a leading 'Jewish' politician admitting to this global phenomena. Here it is specifically regarding the attitude of the leaders of the rogue Jewish State of Israel. But as anyone can see from all the evidence collected in this topic-thread, it reveals a persistent, centuries-old globally-held attitude among Jews that for a non-Jew to discuss is silenced as engaging in anti-semitic hate tropes.

Benny Gantz, the man directly responsible for the Gaza Massacre of 2014, spoke Monday 25th March 2019 at the AIPAC yearly conference in Washington. He referenced his participation in the mission for the evacuation of the Jews of Ethiopia. So far, so good.

But when Gantz, who is running for the prime ministership of Israel with the Blue and White party, decided to share that moment with his Israeli supporters, he let slip an inconvenient truth.

“If there is one Jew in danger, anywhere in the world, then our mission is unfinished; today I am telling you the mission is unfinished!” Gantz tweeted in Hebrew.

Let’s unpack that for a moment.

Datum: Most Jews do not live in Israel.

Datum: Most Jews do not hold Israeli citizenship.

Datum: Gantz (and most Israelis) believe it is the duty of Israel to engage anyone, anywhere, in order to save Jews.

Conclusion: Israel does not recognize the sovereignty of other nations; or, at least, sees that sovereignty as imperfect, as it considers its right to violate it in the case of Jews.

Conclusion: Israel risks Jews not living there by perpetually raising the specter of Jews holding “dual nationality.”

What is Gantz saying? He is saying Jews everywhere belong to a single nation, and that it is the duty of the State of the Jews to save them, wherever they are and whatever the danger.

He is not speaking of the duty of Israel of saving its own citizens, but rather the obligation to violate the sovereignty of any other country in its crusade to save Jews. He explicitly says that Israel owes loyalty to those non-citizens – and implicitly, that they owe loyalty to it.

Most Israelis won’t even see the problem. They are raised thinking of non-Israeli Jews as Jews who have not yet become Israelis. And the law is on their side: All you have to do, if you’re a Jew, to get an Israeli citizenship, is land in Ben Gurion Airport. (Big caveat: the rabbinate of Israel will decide if you’re a Jew or not. Gruesome details here.)

But it ought to trouble Jews living outside Israel to have a rogue state claim semi-sovereignty over them. It’s a very short walk from here to getting diaspora Jews suspected of dual loyalty to their foreign would-be protector. And the practice by Israeli intelligence agencies of using Jews as agents doesn’t help dispel those suspicions.

Gantz runs as a moderate right-winger, Netanyahu without the corruption and the alliance with the Kahanists; his number 2, Yair Lapid, will basically say the same thing regarding Israel and the diaspora Jews; and so have many prime ministers.

Basically, Israel is not a nation in the modern sense. It is an ethno-state. It has explicitly rejected the notion of there being an Israeli nation, and you can’t demand to be recognized in your ID as an Israeli. The government denies you that right: you can’t be an Israeli, only a member of a specific millet (see the link above.) The government will recognize you an as Assyrian, or as a Samaritan; yet it will go to court, and win, denying you the right to be recognized as an Israeli.

Keep that in mind the next time AIPAC or some other hasbarist tries to pull the old con, claiming Israel “shares Western values.” It never did, and indeed, as long as it sees itself as a Jewish country, it cannot.

I think she is making here a quite unique and important argument to the proper understanding of the jewish experience immediately before and during WW2.
And I've never heard anyone make it quite so clearly and pursuasively before. Which is curious considering it is an aspect that I think is so crucial to a proper understanding of the mythology and distorted history called 'the Holocaust'.
Fascinating, therefore, that the speakers were forbidden to venture into this territory.
Basically, the basis for this pseudo-historical deceit is considered too 'hot' a topic even for those who have seen through the deception and mass-delusion and are daring to question its historical accuracy.

...Now I must apologize to my respectable hosts who do not want to include in their programme a critique of Judaism. This session’s topic is ‘Nazism, Zionism and Holocaust’. I am sorry to say that these topics will get us nowhere, for they are red herrings that throw us off the scent of the truly dangerous quarry which actually prompted the creation of each of them.

...I believe that the two great prophets — Christ and Mohammed — saw in Judaism a dangerously misanthropic tendency, and that each held up a mirror to the fundamentally anti-Gentile narcissism in the pious deceit aroused by a Jewish ‘God/Father’ and election of ‘chosen children’.

When I was reading for two years for a Master’s Degree at the Jesuit College of Heythrop (part of the University of London), I saw its College Principal preach to Jewish congregations in reform synagogues that the two Biblical covenants [old and new testaments] stand side by side. Thus, in spite of New Testament theology, Jesuits now defer to the first Covenant of the Old Testament (or Torah) between only the ‘chosen children’ and their Jewish ‘God/Father’.

Not only theologically, but psychologically speaking the Judaic Old Testament proved disastrous, for it is based upon a bad father role model. For we know as parents that in life, a father who favours one of his children above all the others will increase that child’s self-centredness and increase its motivation to sustain this selfish, loveless sense of self-supremacy, whilst in the unfavoured children, a low morale or sibling rivalry will result.
Both Christ and Mohammed warned mankind of this disaffection.

Christ warned us of the “brood of vipers” and “deceivers” and begged his Jewish brothers and sisters to reject the anti-Gentile oral teachings which later on became the written Talmud.

Mohammed warned of the same “deceivers”, but said that Christians may be trusted.
I am sorry to say that Christianity today has been so corrupted by the secular race supremacy religion of Holocaustianity that many Christians are rendered quite untrustworthy by their collusion with Judaism. Indeed, as Rabbi Friedman exposed in his speech yesterday, Christian leaders, drawn by an enthrallingly plausible Holocaust narrative, began forsaking Christ’s teachings since the 1960s, to revere Auschwitz — the sacrificial burnt offering site of a so-called covenantal bargain for Israel — as The “Holy of Holies”. Thus, theologically, these Christian leaders no longer attest to the New Testament and its Only Son’s anti-vanity Covenant, which was meant to supersede the dangerous electness of one “chosen children” above all others. For pointing out in my university essays that this false and treacherous hyphenating of Judaism with Christianity is like wearing a T-shirt saying Jesus loves you, but I am his favourite, and thus completely undermining the humility message from Christ, I was asked to “study elsewhere”!

Now, I do know from the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta orthodox rabbis that there is a difference of approach between Judaism and Zionism; I know this from the interviews their brethren in London gave me for my film documentary trilogy entitled Israel in Flagrante: Caught in acts of Twistspeak.

However, it is my considered view — based on the parallel teaching of Christ and Mohammed as well as from the Soncino edition of the Jewish law books called the Talmud — that Talmudic laws authorize Jews to deceive non-Jews in their over-riding Jewish race supremacy mission… just as the not-less secular motto of the Mossad which is “By way of deception”.

Judaism and its followers do have a right to exist. And a safe place on the planet must be found where Jews can follow their beliefs, but without interfering with other cultures and without their “Weapons of Mass Destruction” which, according to the tenets of the Talmud, they do not care to reveal to us. This is typical of the teaching of the Talmud, legal twistspeak, by which the focus of attention is turned away from their secretive behaviour to charge other nations — Iraq for instance — and now Iran, for so much as maybe planning to create defensive Weapons of Mass Destruction. Given Israel’s borderless state intention to claim for itself a “Promised Land” from “the Nile to the Euphrates”, surely its neighbours would be justified in doing so ?

The World now knows that we were lied to when we (the coalition of the duped) went into yet another inter-gentile war (this time with an innocent Iraq) for no one’s benefit other than the usual third party’s. For the true cause and effect facts are as follows: organised world Jewry, in its visible form as the State of Israel, does have Weapons of Mass Destruction (curiously since the mid 1940s at a time when it is said European Jewry had mostly perished). Iraq did not have WMD, and Iran does not.

Leading to the creation of the State of Israel (gradually for over a century by “disappearing the indigenous people” and seizing land), the Zionists expelled more than half of the Palestinian population, and they still brutally oppress those who remained. Iran does not oppress its Jewish minority.

Yes, I too, like the Neturei Karta, believe in a peaceful dismantling of the Israeli entity in Palestine. And, of course, one should add, the proper reparations from Israel for its criminal pirating of Palestine — a pirating planned and announced by Theodor Herzl in 1897, when, incidentally, Adolf Hitler was aged eight years old!

But, unlike the Neturei Karta rabbis, I do not believe the answer is to re-disperse, among the nations, the Jewish people who are anti-gentile by their own misfortunate religious definition and mission.

This dispersement is unworkable, as their history has shown. For the one question we never hear asked in public discourse is this: why has Jewish behaviour throughout the ages — and even well before the arrival of Christianity, as is attested by ancient Roman sources — been met everywhere else eventually with angry pogroms, the best publicized being the expulsion and persecution policy of the 1930s and 1940s across Europe?

This question is not asked because it is considered “anti-semitic” even to draw attention to the fact that World Jewry had openly declared economic warfare on Germany as early as in 1933. So naturally the agents of the “Trojan Horse”, as leading Zionist Chaim Weizmann called the Jews in German-dominated Europe, were (partly) interned in concentration camps after the outbreak of the war. Other “normal wartime activities against enemy agents”, as truthful Jewish observers like Benjamin Freedman put it, were also taken.

I do not want to see any race or species of flora or fauna on our planet to be eliminated. Equally, I do not want my own race eliminated through mass immigration policies, which were curiously undertaken as a global strategy since the establishment of Holocaustianity. The differences in our races and their cultures (as prompted by their authentic placements) are the glory of our planet.

We are being persuaded, through the mispackaging of policy presentations to the public, to diminish the true nature of our races and cultures in this disastrous multi-cultural, multi-racial experiment, which, curiously, is to be implemented everywhere except in Israel and which will lead to our self-destruction. There is no hate in what I am saying, as will be smeared over me, of course, in the usual attempts to discredit any critique of Jewish misanthropic behaviour: “to save [only] a jewish life is to save the world”.
I speak no hatred; I speak up for the rescue of the planet and its peoples, as Mother Nature created.

No race, no species, need be killed. Truth alone renders harmful liars impotent. But if we fail to address the whole truth and instead content ourselves, like cowards, with half-truths (of the type “Judaism is good, only Zionism is bad”), Judaism’s chameleon-like ability to dupe the nations into bowing to its supremacy will mean we keep performing inter-gentile wars by proxy, for Judaism’s sake alone, like the First and the Second World War, the War on Iraq (and next on Iran, we are told). That is, war for no benefit to either gentile side, only to the usual third party, the “Trojan horse”, as Dr. Chaim Weizmann put it.

Now, because of the big lie about Iraq — a lie which has brought blood and shame upon all who were in the thrall of pro-Zionist foreign policies — the world will perhaps be ready for realizing that the instrument of Holocaustianity is set to play off the nations upon a fabricated collision course.

In sum: “This story shall the good man teach his son...” as do the prophets Christ and Mohammed who warned their followers of the perils of Judaism’s “Electness”.

"When people who are honestly mistaken learn the truth,
they either cease being mistaken
or they cease being honest"
-- Anonymous

Given the exceptional bond between the Kennedy brothers, what is the probability that the two Kennedy assassinations were unrelated? Rather, we should start with the assumption that they are related. Basic common sense suggests that the Kennedy brothers have been killed by the same force, and for the same motives. It is, at least, a logical working hypothesis that Robert was eliminated from the presidential race because he had to be prevented from reaching a position where he could reopen the case of his brother’s death. Both his loyalty to his brother’s memory, and his obsession with justice, made it predictable that, if he reached the White House, he would do just that.

Just hours after Robert’s assassination, the press was able to inform the American people, not only of the identity of the assassin, but also of his motive, and even of his detailed biography...
Handwritten notes by Sirhan found in a notebook at his home confirmed that his act had supposedly been premeditated and motivated by his hatred of Israel.
That became the story line of the mainstream media from day one. Jerry Cohen of the Los Angeles Times wrote a front page article, saying that Sirhan is “described by acquaintances as a ‘virulent’ anti-Israeli,” (Cohen changed that into “virulent anti-semite” in an article for the The Salt Lake Tribune),..

In 2008, on the 40th anniversary of Robert’s death, Sasha Issenberg of the Boston Globe recalled that the death of Robert Kennedy was “a first taste of Mideast terror.”He quotes Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz (best known as Jonathan Pollard’s lawyer), as saying:

“I thought of it as an act of violence motivated by hatred of Israel and of anybody who supported Israel. […] It was in some ways the beginning of Islamic terrorism in America. It was the first shot. A lot of us didn’t recognize it at the time.”[11]The fact that Sirhan was from a Christian family was lost on Dershowitz. The Jewish Forward took care to mention it on the same occasion, only to add that Islamic fanaticism ran in his veins anyway...

...For 50 years, the Israeli trail in the Kennedy assassination has been smothered, and anyone who mentioned it was immediately ostracized. American congressman Paul Findley nevertheless dared write in March 1992 in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs: “It is interesting to note that in all the words written and uttered about the Kennedy assassination, Israel’s intelligence agency, the Mossad, has never been mentioned.”

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Check this out.
Here are a few extracts from The Jewish Chronicle summarising the book Imperialism: a study, written by John Atkinson Hobson in 1902

Imperialism: a study, written by John Atkinson Hobson in 1902, asks rhetorically, “Does anyone seriously suppose that a great war could be undertaken by any European state, or a great state loan subscribed, if the house of Rothschild and its connections set their face against it?”

The book describes the financial system as controlled by people “united by the strongest bonds of organisation, always in closest and quickest touch with one as other, situated in the very heart of the business capital of every state, controlled, so far as Europe is concerned, by men of a single and peculiar race, who have behind them many centuries of financial experience, they are in a unique position to control the policy of nations”.

The book also says: “There is not a war, a revolution, an anarchist assassination, or any other public shock, which is not gainful to these men; they are harpies who suck their gains from every new forced expenditure and every sudden disturbance of public credit”.

Furthermore, it describes how the direct influence exercised by these financial houses “is supported by the control which they exercise over the body of public opinion through the press”.

Hobson's book has been previously quoted here and mentioned here at RODOH as well as elsewhere.

The Jewish newspaper publicised these historically accurate excerpts from the book in an attempt to reinforce the recent decades of misinformation the current generations have been subjected to, but most importantly to denigrate a politician almost certain to be the next UK PM because of his pro-Palestinian utterances.here

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From a site with the book available as a PDF a more favourable assessment is presented:"Hobson was a historian and economic journalist whose thoughtful critique of the justifications of imperialism and his work taking the topic back to first principles stands today as an example of respect for all peoples throughout the world."
How fascinating (and revealing) therefore that people who regard themselves as 'Jews' today should have any problem with it?

"Hobson was an independent thinker who argued that capitalist goals had been perverted by special interests and misdirected governments".
His book is described as "a classic analysis of imperialism by a British economic journalist who explores the way in which mercantile interests in the home country can manipulate the power of the state in order to get benefits in the colony".

.International Jewish vengeance against the Russian aristocracy, leading the way to “secure a field for Jewish exploitation of Russia”

I once heard the extremely intelligent, witty and erudite celebrity Stephen Fry once ridiculing the idea that extremely wealthy and top international Jewish capitalists and financiers could possibly have co-operated with and supported Jewish communist revolutionaries. He ridiculed it as a bizarre and ridiculous anti-semitic hate trope promulgated by paranoid conspiracy theorists who see the hand of jews everywhere. (Incidentally, Stephen Fry self-identifies as a 'Jew'.)

Capitalist Jews and Communist Jews in cahoots? Puh! What prejudicial anti-Jewish nonsense! How is that possible?

On the face of it, it seems an eminently reasonable position to take: how could communists and capitalists come together on any platform, scheme, conspiracy or mutually beneficial endeavour?

The reality remains that international capitalist Jews in Sweden, America, Britain, Switzerland and elsewhere DID work together:
— to assist the Entente's (Britain's, France's and Russia's) defeat of Germany in WW1 in order to be granted land for Israel in the British administered Mandate of Palestine (Balfour declaration);
— to help revolutionary Jews defeat and eliminate the Romanov dynasty in Tsarist Russia;
— and co-operated with Soviet Communist Jews to defeat Germany after Hitler and the NSDAP successfully identified, removed and reversed Jewish dominance, corruption and control of Germany.

Wickham Steed, the editor of the London Times... reported that Jacob Schiff and Felix Warburg, the New York bankers, were “prime movers” to bolster the Trotsky regime to “secure a field for exploitation of Russia.”
-- Westbrook Pegler, Reading Eagle, 17th May 1961

Jacob Schiff was a Jewish banker/ financier and a leader on Wall Street from 1880 to 1920. That this period became known as the ‘Schiff era’ is indicative of his prominent position. He was heavily involved in all major Jewish issues of the day, and became especially involved in the concerns of Russian Jews under the Tsar.

Little Jacob Schiff far right, standing next to Mayor Gaynor of New York

Jacob Schiff[born 1847] was raised, educated and worked in Jewish banks in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He was born into a reasonably wealthy Ashkenazi Jewish rabbinical family that had lived in Frankfurt since 1370. His father, Moses Schiff, was a broker for the Rothschilds. Jacob emigrated to America after their American civil war in 1865 and worked as a broker on Wall Street. In 1872 he returned to Germany to manage a Jewish bank for two years before returning to New York, America in 1874 to work in another.

Below is an excerpt from a long account, written just one week ago, by an American Jew of his discovery that Jacob Schiff spent approximately $2 billion dollars in todays currency to support Bolshevik revolution in Russia against the Tsar and the Romanov monarchy.

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...all historians know perfectly well that the Bolshevik leaders were overwhelmingly Jewish, with three of the five revolutionaries Lenin named as his plausible successors coming from that background.
Although only around 4% of Russia’s population was Jewish, a few years ago Vladimir Putin stated that Jews constituted perhaps 80-85% of the early Soviet government, an estimate fully consistent with the contemporaneous claims of Winston Churchill, Times of London correspondent Robert Wilton, and the officers of American Military Intelligence.
Recent books by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Yuri Slezkine, and others have all painted a very similar picture. And prior to World War II, Jews remained enormously over-represented in the Communist leadership, especially dominating the Gulag administration and the top ranks of the dreaded NKVD.

Perhaps the most utterly explosive and totally suppressed aspect of the close relationship between Jews and Communism regards the claims that Jacob Schiff and other top international Jewish bankers were among the leading financial backers of the Bolshevik Revolution. I spent nearly all of my life regarding these vague rumours as such obvious absurdities that they merely demonstrated the lunatic anti-Semitism infesting the nether-regions of Far Right anti-Communist movements, thereby fully confirming the theme of Richard Hofstadter’s famous book The Paranoid Style in American Politics.
Indeed, the Schiff accusations [seemed] so totally ridiculous that they were never even once mentioned in the hundred-odd books on the history of the Bolshevik Revolution and Soviet Communism that I read during the 1970s and 1980s.

Therefore, it came as an enormous shock when I discovered that the claims were not only probably correct, but had been almost universally accepted as true throughout the first half of the twentieth century.

For example, The “Jewish Threat” by Joseph W. Bendersky summarizes his years of archival research and he documents that Schiff’s financial support for the Bolsheviks was widely reported in the American Military Intelligence files of the period, with British Intelligence taking the same position.
Kenneth D. Ackerman’s 2016 study Trotsky in New York, 1917 describes much the same material. In 1925, the British Guardian published this information and it was soon widely discussed and accepted throughout the 1920s and 1930s by numerous major international media outlets. Naomi W. Cohen’s 1991 hagiographic volume Jacob Schiff devotes several pages to summarising the various stories of Schiff’s strong Bolshevik ties that had earlier been published in leading American periodicals.

Little Jacob Schiff in top hat out walking with his wife

Writing nearly a century after the events under discussion, these three Jewish authors casually dismiss all the numerous accounts they provide by highly-credible observers — American and British Intelligence officers and prominent international journalists — as merely demonstrating the delusional nature of the extreme anti-Semitism that had infected so much of the world in those bygone days. Yet most serious historians would surely place far greater weight upon contemporaneous evidence than upon the personal opinions of those writers who happen to gather together that material evidence generations afterward.

Henry Wickham Steed was one of the foremost journalists of his era, and he had served as editor of the Times of London, the world’s most authoritative newspaper. A couple of years after his retirement, he published his lengthy personal memoirs, now conveniently online, which contain the following very intriguing passages:

Henry Wickham Steed wrote:Potent international financial interests were at work in favour of the immediate recognition of the Bolshevists. Those influences had been largely responsible for the Anglo-American proposal in January to call Bolshevist representatives to Paris at the beginning of the Peace Conference — a proposal which had failed after having been transformed into a suggestion for a Conference with the Bolshevists at Prinkipo. The well-known American Jewish banker, Mr. Jacob Schiff, was known to be anxious to secure recognition for the Bolshevists…

…the prime movers were Jacob Schiff, Warburg, and other international financiers, who wished above all to bolster up the Jewish Bolshevists in order to secure a field for German and Jewish exploitation of Russia.

Schiff’s own family later confirmed this widely-accepted history. The February 3, 1949 Knickerbocker column of the New York Journal-American, then one of the city’s leading newspapers, reported the account:
“Today it is estimated by Jacob’s grandson, John Schiff, that the old man sank about 20,000,000 dollars for the final triumph of Bolshevism in Russia.”
The present-day value of the figure quoted is probably some $2 billion, a very substantial sum.

Despite this enormous volume of convincing evidence, for the next half-century or more, Schiff’s name almost entirely vanished from all mainstream texts on Soviet Communism. As I wrote last year:

In 1999, Harvard University published the English edition of The Black Book of Communism, whose six co-authors devoted 850 pages to documenting the horrors inflicted upon the world by that defunct system, which had produced a total death toll they reckoned at 100 million.
I have never read that book and I have often heard that the alleged body-count has been widely disputed. But for me the most remarkable detail is that when I examine the 35 page index, I see a vast profusion of entries for totally obscure individuals whose names are surely unknown to all but the most erudite specialist. But there is no entry for Jacob Schiff, the world-famous Jewish banker who apparently financed the creation of the whole system in the first place. Nor one for Olaf Aschberg, the powerful Jewish banker in Sweden, who played such an important role in providing the Bolsheviks a financial life-line during the early years of their threatened regime, and even founded the first Soviet international bank.

Excerpt from 'American Pravda: How Hitler Saved the Allies' by Ron Unz